Proverbs and Sayings
Old English, Ancient Chinese, Yiddish, and Modern Proverbs
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
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Proverbs and Sayings about Life
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
- old English proverb
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous proverb
Actions speak louder than words.
- Anonymous
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
Happiness depends upon ourselves
- Aristotle
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Comparisons are odious.
- old English proverb
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
This too, shall pass.
- Bible
Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.
- English Proverb
Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous
When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous proverb
To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Anonymous proverb
Well begun is half done.
-
Aristotle
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
- African Proverb
The most difficult phase of life is not when no one understands you, it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous quote
Let bygones be bygones.
- Anonymous proverb
A friend to all is a friend to none.
-
Aristotle
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
- old English proverb
Two wrongs don't make a right.
- Anonymous proverb
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
-
Aristotle
Man does not live by bread alone.
- Biblical proverb
Experience is the best teacher.
- Anonymous
There are none so blind as those, that will not see.
- Anonymous proverb
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.
- old English proverb
Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
Every cloud has a silver lining.
- Anonymous proverb
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
A fool and his money are soon parted.
- old English proverb
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
All that glisters is not gold.
- old English proverb
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- old English proverb
Success is a journey, not a destination.
- Ben Sweetland
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
Hope springs eternal.
- Alexander Pope
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Persistence prevails when all else fails!
- Anonymous
Faith can move mountains.
- Anonymous
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
Love conquers all.
- Virgil
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
The lessons of the past provide the path to the future.
- Anonymous
Many hands make light work.
- Anonymous
Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
Earth laughs in flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday
- Anonymous
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
- Napoleon Hill
Leap and the net will appear.
- John Burroughs
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm Forbes
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
George Bernard Shaw
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
- John Wooden
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
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Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Brontë
Stay Alert, and doors will open.
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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
Simple living is the way to happy living.
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Ancient Chinese Proverbs
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- ancient Chinese proverb
I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand.
- ancient Chinese proverb (Confucius)
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
The longest journey begins with a single step.
- ancient Chinese proverb
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
He who is contented is rich.
- Lao Tzu
It is the beautiful bird which gets caged.
- ancient Chinese proverb
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- ancient Chinese proverb
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
- Chinese proverb
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
He who seeks revenge should remember to dig two graves.
- ancient Chinese proverb
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
To lead people, walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
Yiddish Proverbs
Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
Envy breeds hate.
- Yiddish Proverb
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Don't ask questions about fairy tales.
- Yiddish Proverb
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
A meowing cat can't catch mice.
- Yiddish Proverb
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